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Re:1984 v. Brave New World by wtbob on Thursday October 23, 2014 @04:38PM (#8500607)
> Really, Brave New World minus the implausible bits and with a larger dash of individual freedom thrown in is pretty much as far from dystopian as it can get. Radical, certainly, and jarring—very different from our current social order—but fundamentally good.

And that's why Brave New World is far more frightening: an educated, intelligent person looks at it now and thinks, 'that's not so bad!'

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Re:1984 v. Brave New World by jjoonathan on Thursday October 23, 2014 @05:12PM (#8500785)
Then it should be easy to argue the point instead of offering feigned surprise that someone might think that way.
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Re:1984 v. Brave New World by gweinberg on Thursday October 23, 2014 @06:02PM (#8501001)
Good and bad are fundamentally subjective. If you look at BNW and think "that's not so bad", we;ll just have to agree to disagree.
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Re:1984 v. Brave New World by JacksonGariety on Friday October 24, 2014 @04:47AM (#8502727)
But now the "intellectuals" (like OP) who have the power are drastically far removed from the common person, and thus their opinions of good and evil are harmful.
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Re:1984 v. Brave New World by emgee3 on Thursday October 23, 2014 @04:45PM (#8500638)
What's even more frightening is we're getting both.
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Re:1984 v. Brave New World by eli_gottlieb on Friday October 24, 2014 @09:29AM (#8503527)
No, we got Snow Crash instead.
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Re:1984 v. Brave New World by ionwake on Friday October 24, 2014 @02:03PM (#8504978)
Snow crash had an emphasis on corporation habitats, and scrutiny of employees. I believe that was it, care to elaborate?
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Re:1984 v. Brave New World by eli_gottlieb on Sunday October 26, 2014 @08:40AM (#8510890)
I was thinking of the globalization, cyberpunk, collapse of social/governmental authority, widespread poverty, and cyberpunk.
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Re:1984 v. Brave New World by JacksonGariety on Thursday October 23, 2014 @04:45PM (#8500633)
Yeah wow I need to get off Hacker News. These are scary hive-mind hedonistic ideas.
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